Articles cover the story of an attempted bank robbery of the Commercial Bank, (Main Road, Eltham) on Thursday 15th December 1949 when shots were exchanged in a bid to prevent the escape of a man who had attempted to rob the bank. A subsequent search took place. 19 year old youth Kay Arthur Morgan was later caught and committed to trial. He had used a stolen gun, 15 shots had been fired.. Two bullets were fired into the ceiling and back wall of the bank, after penetrating the wooden counter and passing in between the legs of the receiving officer Spear. Names mentioned: Senior Constable N. Forbes, Harry Wallace (Manager), Mr. L.A. Spears (Receiving Officer) , Senior Detective H. McMennamin, Mr H. D. Pettie (Mountain View Rd, Montmorency, Detective Sergeant K. Hubbard, Inspector F. Hobley, Senior Inspector R. Newton, Detective P. Pedersen, Detective L Dent, Detective J. Oakers, Includes photosFour pages of photocopies of newspaper clippings with typed source information. Pistol stolen, The Argus, 10th December, 1919 Search of Scrub proves fruitless, The Age 17th December 1949, page 3 Pistol Battle at Bank, The Age 16th December 1949 "Guilty" pleas to pistol theft Court told of lad's hold-up bid, The Argus 23rd February, 1950 page 7 commercial bank, eltham, robbery

In 1858 Hugh Wallace , undertaker and cabinet maker, moved from the Assembly Rooms at the corner of Gipps street, and opened his new Bank Hotel in Sackville street, next door to the grand Bank of Australasia. The hotel seems to have been the favourite meeting place for many of the sporting organisations of the time , including the Football, Rowing, Athletic and Gymnastics clubs . The second licensee was Thomas Pearson, who came to Belfast in 1855, working first for the Harbour master Capt. John Mills , then as the first Assistant Lighthouse keeper when it was built in 1859 . He was promoted to Lighthouse keeper 2 years later. The hotel continued in business with a further 8 licensees until it closed in 1918. Since which it has housed a diverse number of businesses, collecting a veranda along the way. It is still in use in Sackville street today. Quite a few of the Licensees of Belfast seem to have also had an interest in the Funeral business. Possibly, it was a good commercial undertaking, the same people providing them with a living selling spirituous liquor, and when they died of the effects , paid again for their burial. Early photograph Black and white photograph of Black and white photograph of double storied rendered detached building with doors at either end and two arched windows and door in centrehotel, building, sackville street, bank hotel, inn, business, commercial

Contains 15 items: 1/Blank paper with letterhead of the Caulfield Elderly Citizens’ Association – President, Mrs Cr. G. E. Wallace, MBE, JP. (Gladys Wallace, later Gladys Machin) 2/Handwritten minutes of public meetings, Caulfield Elderly Citizens’ Association, held 02/10/1952 (two pages). 27 were in attendance, a Ladies’ Committee had been formed. 3/Minutes (typewritten; one page) of the third public meeting of the Caulfield Elderly Citizens’ Association, Caulfield Town Hall, 03/02/1953. 4/Minutes (typewritten, one page) of the Caulfield Elderly Citizens Association held 10/04/1953-minutes seem incomplete. 5/Caulfield Elderly Citizens Association Honary Secretary’s First Annual Report for the year ended 28/02/1954 (typewritten, three pages). Notes that the Association had 542 financial members. 6/Caulfield Elderly Citizens Association – first Annual Meeting, held 18/03/1954 (typewritten, 3 pages). 62 attended this AGM. 7/ Caulfield Elderly Citizens Association. Second Annual Meeting held 30/03 (no date stated but 1955 is meant). The report opens to the balance sheet for the year ending 28/02/1955. 91 were in attendance. 8/Caulfield Elderly Citizens Association – Revenue Statement from 01/03/1956 to 30/06/1957. The Association had 12,151 pounds in its accumulated fund, with 1,489 in expenditures in 1956-57. 9/’Some Questions – Answers Wanted’ – list (one page) of 18 questions arising out of the Association’s 1960-61 report. Unsigned, without response. 10/Caulfield Elderly Citizens Association – minutes of meeting held on 07/08/1961. 11/Invitations (3 copies) to attend the eight annual meeting of the Caulfield Elderly Citizens Association, to be held on 07/08/1961, with Agenda of the Meeting. 12/Invitations (5 copies) to attend the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Caulfield Elderly Citizens Association, 19/07/1962, with Agenda of the Meeting. 13/Caulfield Elderly Citizens Association – Minutes of the Eight Annual Meeting held 07/08/1962 (although 1961 may have been meant) (3 copies). 14/Minutes of Ninth annual meeting Elderly Citizens Association 19/09/1962. 15/Typewritten ‘List of Members who have passed away’, listed by year from 1955 through 1962, 75 names with no further information.caulfield elderly citizens association, caulfield aged people associations, elderly citizens clubs, elderly people meetings, wallace cr g. e. mrs, wallace gladys, machin gladys

Small statuette depicting an Australian serviceman assisting a wounded comrade. The statuette depicts a scene from a famous moving film taken in New Guinea during World War 2 by Australian War Correspondent, Damien Peter Parer who was attached to the Australian Military Forces. The statuette is made from Pewter and is mounted on a stained wooden base. The following text statement is copied from the AWM website and describes the image in further detail: During the advance on Salamaua VX89711 Sergeant Gordon Raymond Charles Ayre MM, a 58/59th Battalion bandsman from Shepparton, Victoria, in pouring rain assists a wounded mate, VX132355 Private William Oswald Wallace Johnson, of the same unit, across Alan's (Allen's?) Creek to an advanced regimental aid post. Johnson had been wounded by a Japanese grenade on the 13th of July 1943 during an attack on the "coconuts" area. Sergeant Ayre was awarded the military medal for his performance during this action. This is one of the iconic images of the Second World War. (Still from AWM film F01866 "Assault on Salamaua", newsreel by Damien Parer)The wooden base has a label which is inscribed with the following: "MATES" Heritage Fine Arts, Limited Edition